Bruno aschenbach



UNITED STATESl PATENT Ormes.

BRUNO ASOHENBACH, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR IOF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE L. HERMAN MUEI-IE, OF SAME PLACE.

WINDOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,427, dated April 2, 1889.

Application filed October 25, 1888. Serial No. 289,132. (No model.)

To all whom/,it may concern: the upper andlower parts thereofviiat springs Be it known that I, BRUNO ASCHENBACH, S are secured. These springs S are secured a citizen of the United States of America, reat one of their ends to said jamb-frame, as siding at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchshown, and the free ends thereof project out- 5 anan and State of Missouri, have invented ward and in reverse directions, and engage 55 certain new and useful Improvements in Winand operate within the grooves or channels dows; and I do hereby declare the following b of the guides adjacent thereto. to be a full, clear, and exact description of the By the construction above set forth it will invention, such as will enable others skilled be seen that both strips or guides A and A2 Io in the art to which it appertains to make and are thrust forward or outward by the springs 6o use the same, reference being had to the acand held snugly against the vertical sides of companying drawings, and to letters or figures the sash, but are adapted to be pressed inward of reference marked thereon, which form a against the springs S, to thereby readily repart of this specification. move the sash. To prevent the guide-strips 15 My invention relates to certain new and A and A2 from being pressed outwardly too 65 useful improvements in window-frames and far and cause a binding of the sash, pinss are sash; and it consists in the novel construcsecured thereto, which bear against the station and combination of the parts thereof, as tionary part of the jambs. To lock the guides will be more fully hereinafter described and A and A2 in a fixed position, pins QJ and p are zo claimed. l employedwhich may be ornamented and in 7o The object of my invention is to provide a the form of curtain-holders. These pins are convenient form of frame and sash, wherein used at the lower and upper parts of the jambs, the sash may be readily removed, and attachpassing through apertures in the front sides ments whereby the sashes are adapted to be of the jambs, and into one of the two parallel 2 5 held in a raised or lowered position. I attain4 apertures s and s2 in the guides A and A2 at 75 this object by the construction illustrated in the upper and lower parts thereof. When the accompanying drawings, wherein like letsaid pins are in engagement with the aperters of reference indicate similar parts in the tures S2, the guides are locked in their normal several views, and in whichpositions, as shown in Fig. l, and when the 3o Figure l is a front elevation of a windowsaid guides are pressed inward the said pins 8o frame and sash, partially broken away. Fig. are passed through the apertures s', thus 2 is a transverse vertical section on the line a: locking the said guides vback in the jambs of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a horizontal section on vwith their flanges b3 iinsh with the faces of thelineyfyof Fig. l. Fig. 4 is adetail perspecsaid jambs, thus releasing the sash and per? 3 5 tive View of a part of one of the guide-strips mitting of its removal. 8 5 adapted to be centrally tted in one of the The stiles of the sash B and B are groovedjambs. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of and ride each on one of the anges b3 of the a part of one of the window-frames. channels or grooves b of the guides A and A2.

A indicates the window-frame, and B and The said sashes are arranged as in the usual 4o B the lower and upper sash. rlhe inner opmanner, one back of the other, to allow them 9o posing faces of the jambs of the frame A are to slide past each other. The one guide A formed with vertical slots a. and a', extending' has the lower part of the inner iiange, b3, and throughout theirwholelength. Within these the upper part of the outer flange, b3, evenly slots a and a sash-guides A and-A2 vare fitted, corrugated, as at b2, Fig. l, and the adjacent 45 one on each side of the frame, and areof such stile of the lower sash, B, is recessed, as at b4. 95

' dimensions as to allow movement forward and Vithin said recess b4 a depen ding spring-arm, back within their respective slots. The saidl O, is secured, whose lower end, c, is enlarged guides A and A are formed with channels or and rounded to engage the corrugated surface grooves b and b in the outer and inner faces b2. The upper sash, B, is provided with a 5o thereof. The jambs are made hollow, and at similar arm, O, arranged in the reverse direcrocL tion, and in like manner engages with a eorrugated su rfaee on the outer flange, b3. By means of the construction above set forth the sash may be held in a raised or lowered position, the spring-arms c binding with suffleientforee on the corrugated surfaces to sustain the weight of the sash, but offering small resistf ance when the sashes are closed.

By my improved construction the sash-retaining' strips commonly secured to the jainbs adjacent to the sash are dispensed with, as well as suspending eords, pulleys, and Weights, the said sash being adapted to be readily removed when desired, thus providing a eonvenient frame and sash.

I claiml. The combination, substantially as described, of a window-frame the sides of which are provided each with a slot, spring-pressed guide-strips loosely seated therein and having a central groove or channel in their outer faces to form inner and outer flanges, and

-the Lipper and lower sash having grooved Stiles 

